Seminar series
Date
Mon, 05 Feb 2018
12:45
Location
L3
Speaker
Jock McOrist
Organisation
Surrey

I am interested in the moduli spaces of heterotic vacua. These are closely related to the moduli spaces of stable holomorphic bundles but in which the base and bundle vary simultaneously, together with additional constraints deriving from string theory. I will first summarise some pre-Brexit results we have derived. These include an explicit Kaehler metric and Kaehler potential for both the moduli space and its first cousin, the matter field space. I will secondly describe new, post-Brexit work in which these results are encased within an elegant geometry, which we call a universal heterotic geometry. Beyond compelling aesthetics, the framework is surprisingly useful giving both a concise derivation of our pre-Brexit results as well as some new results. 

 
 
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